Last October, I wrote about an emerging trend – place shifting – in Business 2.0. The concept of watching your television, anywhere, anytime is the next and the most obvious evolution of the time shifting technology popularized (if not completely monetized) by TiVo. Most of the … Read More »
Archive for June 2005
“It might take 10 years of litigation to get a clear sense of this. That’s 10 years of chilled innovation,” Larry Lessig tells Business Week Online about the far reaching impact of the MGM vs Grokster ruling. I personally feel that the decision is … Read More »
A lot of people including James Enck and Mr VoIP Abramson have been writing about MCI’s foray into consumer VoIP. Smart sleuthing by one of Net2Phone customer’s has proved without doubt that indeed Net2Phone is powering the MCI VoIP service. He used his Net2Phone … Read More »
Nextel will trial IPWireless’ UMTS TD-CDMA mobile broadband solution in Washington, DC and several surrounding areas, marking the first time a major US mobile operator has selected the 3G standard to deliver wireless broadband services. Nextel will deploy the technology in its 2.5 GHz spectrum to … Read More »
You can’t turn anywhere on the web without reading about iTunes with the new podcast support. I am using it and it works well, as you expect from Apple/ iTunes. What you aren’t seeing mentioned much is the new updated iPod software to take … Read More »
Biometric fingerprint readers are extremely useful security devices that still remain easy to use for the consumer. Some security experts have been looking for an alternative since these readers use a single fingerprint that has proven to be spoofable (is that a word?). Enter the
The reasons I bring this up – this post by Marc, this article in The New York Times, and yesterday someone showed me a little Xeroxed flyer from an angel investor who was handing it out to entrepreneurs looking for funding at a vertical … Read More »
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin did not waste time and showed that he is watching out for the interests of phone companies. “We’ll need to move quickly to establish regulatory parity between telephone companies and cable companies that are providing a broadband service,” he told the Wall … Read More »
Update: Confirmed the news – the dealwith Reliance Infocomm is worth $7 million for 60,000 ports. Veraz Networks, a major VoIP equipment provider is about to set a major deal in India for its media gateway products. The deal is said to be worth around $7 million, … Read More »
All right folks, go ahead and pre-order. Read More »
Yahoo bought DialPad and perhaps that is an incentive enough for other majors – Google and Microsoft – to make a VoIP play as well. There is word that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Teleo, a smallish VoIP player based in San Francisco. … Read More »
The city of Houston has deployed parking meters near the downtown courhouse district that accepts credit cards and uses WiFi to verify parking customers’ charges. The test is nearing completion and Houston’s CTO Richard Lewis will soon select the vendor for the meters and proceed with … Read More »
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